Toronto transit researcher, advocate, activist, and archivist Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social posts on twenty years of blogging, the history before the blog, and where Toronto is continuing to lose ground.
@smattymatty @emilylowan @chris @heidilifeldman @ZebKing Jim Pattison also owns Pattison Onestop, which owns a ton of billboards all over Ontario and has multimillion dollar ad contracts with companies like the #ttc (those screens on the TTC and the ads inside the train? More money for Jim Pattison) and a ridiculous amount of condos / buildings (those elevator screens at your office? That's him again)
Pattison Media Group also owns Ripley Entertainment (like Ripley's Aquarium) (1/2)
Toronto Civic Railway car #55 sits on a track alongside ex-Toronto Railway Company car 1326 at the newly-formed Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association's museum site in Halton County.
⌚April 3, 1955 📷Unknown
Correction:
"...after a motorist drove into a streetcar..."
Eglinton LRT opening date is Feb 8, 2026, says Premier #DougFord https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-says-feb-8-eglinton-lrt-opening-9.7062469
Very exciting! Wish I could be there for that, but more I hope that they will be able to implement the first wave of signalling improvements to the whole street-level rail network. #TTC #Toronto #trains
Here, we see an aerial view of the west side of Davisville Yards, looking north, with a number of work cars in view, including a tunnel gauge car and RT-4, the ex-Peter Witt garbage train.
📷 Harvey Naylor/courtesy the John Knight collection.
📅1961
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